Off the derech

And Elisha ben Avuyah said, okay, if I have no Olam HaBa, I may as well have a good time in Olam HaZeh.

And the Gemara says that he went off to Tar Bisrael, he went off to go off to Derech.

That's the story of how Elisha ben Avuyah became Aacher.

A famous Shaila is, what did we want from him? What did we want from him? He went to Shemaim, he made some sort of mistake.